Mel Selfe
@melselfe.bsky.social
Lecturer in Cultural Policy at the University of Glasgow. Media history nerd. Likes archives. Not actually Eve Arden.
Sorry to hear that. Bad grandma!
October 31, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Sorry to hear that. Bad grandma!
Same. Also, I think you are underestimating grandmas here!
October 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Same. Also, I think you are underestimating grandmas here!
When you’re done, cleanse your soul by watching Jane the Virgin. It fixes everything that is rotten at the heart of GG.
October 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
When you’re done, cleanse your soul by watching Jane the Virgin. It fixes everything that is rotten at the heart of GG.
Curious to see that the only point of overlap between the 1989 UK and US top 20s was Milli Vanilli. www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...
Official Top 40 best-selling songs of 1989
1989 saw 18 songs reach the summit of the Official Singles Chart, and the biggest of them all was Ride On Time by Black Box. The Italo-house group topped the chart for six weeks with their breakout hi...
www.officialcharts.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Curious to see that the only point of overlap between the 1989 UK and US top 20s was Milli Vanilli. www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/o...
Caught both of these at a film noir festival in Weston-super-Mare last November. A total revelation.
October 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Caught both of these at a film noir festival in Weston-super-Mare last November. A total revelation.
And yes, Scotrail Wifi is indeed shit.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
And yes, Scotrail Wifi is indeed shit.
The Cloud is not our friend.
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The Cloud is not our friend.
Oh no. By the end if a PhD it’s much more suspicious if someone isn’t talking to themselves in filenames, margins and Post It notes plastered on the wall in front of their desk.
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Oh no. By the end if a PhD it’s much more suspicious if someone isn’t talking to themselves in filenames, margins and Post It notes plastered on the wall in front of their desk.
Given the H&I connection, I think you definitely need this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbc7...
Parody Song by Elaine C Smith & the cast of Naked Video ''Sell Your Cardboard Box'' from 1989
YouTube video by MariVision
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October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Given the H&I connection, I think you definitely need this. m.youtube.com/watch?v=hbc7...
Reposted by Mel Selfe
Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own
October 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanities and social sciences are being systematically gutted while STEM disciplines rediscover their half a century-old research insights and pass them off as their own
I feel your pain. Once we know The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong existed, we can never not ache to see it.
October 27, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I feel your pain. Once we know The Gallery of Madame Liu-Tsong existed, we can never not ache to see it.
Loads of silent films are very short. This is the most doable film month ever!
September 15, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Loads of silent films are very short. This is the most doable film month ever!
Do moral ‘crimes’ count? Although she returns to the stage (and her stage door admirer) to finance her husband’s operation, not her child’s.
September 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Do moral ‘crimes’ count? Although she returns to the stage (and her stage door admirer) to finance her husband’s operation, not her child’s.
Used to teach a Masters course on the History of Critical Writing on Film &TV. My students were similarly unimpressed. And they REALLY did not appreciate me setting them chunks of his writing to ho either it. I am still sad about it over a decade later. Share your heart’s treasures at your peril.
August 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Used to teach a Masters course on the History of Critical Writing on Film &TV. My students were similarly unimpressed. And they REALLY did not appreciate me setting them chunks of his writing to ho either it. I am still sad about it over a decade later. Share your heart’s treasures at your peril.
There’s also a whole Stetson song, which contains the first sequential close ups of the chorines—and their hats. Stetson were so pleased with it, they took out a full page ad in Variety!
August 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
There’s also a whole Stetson song, which contains the first sequential close ups of the chorines—and their hats. Stetson were so pleased with it, they took out a full page ad in Variety!